Lucknow: A singular case of its type has come to mild in UP. The Uttar Pradesh govt has demoted DIG (Prisons) Shailendra Kumar Maitreya. He has been made Senior Prison Superintendent. It’s stated that Maitreya was once promoted with out approval in some departmental inquiries pending in opposition to him.
A press liberate has been issued on this regard from the workplace of Prison Minister Dharamveer Prajapati. It stated Fundamental Secretary (Prison Management) Rajesh Kumar Singh issued the order for demotion at the directions of the minister. It stated that the demotion has been ordered in view of the 0 tolerance coverage of the state govt in opposition to corruption and irregularities.
Used to be suspended in 2007
In 2007, when he was once posted as Prison Superintendent in Basti, Maitreya was once suspended after his function was once discovered to be suspicious. He was once accused of favoritism all over the probe into the preparation of an influence of legal professional via Asif Naseem, the top accused within the multi-crore Shine Town fraud case, whilst he was once in prison. Officers stated that during August 2022, his energy of legal professional was once allegedly ready via forging signatures of prison officers.